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11-letter words containing a, c, e, p, t, o

  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • tape-record — to record (speech, music, etc.) on magnetic tape.
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • triceratops — any of various dinosaurs of the genus Triceratops, of the late Cretaceous Period, having a bony crest on the neck, a long horn over each eye, and a shorter horn on the nose.
  • tropicalize — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • trypanocide — a drug or substance that kills trypanosomes
  • uncaptioned — a title or explanation for a picture or illustration, especially in a magazine.
  • uncompacted — not compacted
  • wet compass — a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.
  • xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
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